Honorable Mentions: December 2021

Best Indie Short: A Normal Night by Olivia D’Lima (UK)

Best Drama Short: Buddy Mills by Matt Provenzano (USA)

Best Drama Short: Maron Doll by Soo Chyun and Yoo Seok Jong (USA)

Best Documentary Short: #Free to be Free: That’s How God Created Us – The story of Louisiana HB 382 by Damien D Smith (USA)

Best Documentary Short: That’s None of My Business by Charles Kaufmann (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Addictions by Sergei Stern (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: The Worst That Could Happen by Emily Murnane (USA)

Best Horror Short: Red by Jacob A Perkins (USA)

Best Western Short: The Outlaw by Simon Smith (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Table by Andreas John (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Transcendance by Javier Antonio Castro (Costa Rica)

Best Animation Short: Max and Bena’s Quarantine Wedding by Micah Chambers-Goldberg (USA)

Best Children Short: Kolya and Olya by Igor Poznansky (Russia)

Best LGBTQ Short: At 10 PM by Alex Meridy (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: Pillow Talk by James Elinski (USA)

Best Microfilm: The Gift by Mohammed Wael Kathim Al Hamdi (Kuwait)

Best Microfilm: The Jump by Sergei Safiullin (USA)

Best Music Video: Ancient Lover by Banjii & Mayuri (USA)

Best Mobile Short: I Met Fellini! by Domenico Saverni (Italy)

Best Director (Male): Daniel Luis Ennab for A Summer Day in Brooklyn (USA)

Best Director (Male): Simone Chierici for Where Are You (Italy)

Best First Time Director (Female): Mara D’Alò Fonseca for Counterclock (USA)

Best First Time Director (Female): Olivia D’Lima for A Normal Night (UK)

Best First Time Director (Male): Gunnar Weber-Prada for The Callback Machine (USA)

Best Actress: Ragon Miller for Restless (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Emily Gornshteyn for The Jump (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Elisabeth Kanettis and Gerald Gerhard Pribek for At the Strawberry Stand (Austria)

Best Ensemble Cast: Anna Wright, Adam Parsons, Ella Lyon, Calypso Bressan, Gabriele Dentoni, Fergus Harkin, Eleanor Hayward, William Parker, Andrei Enache, Holly Ford-Langstaff, Sebastian Lawton, and Daniel Hayns for Zmora (UK)

Best Ensemble Cast: Hannah Howzdy, Amanda Turen, Nathan Wallace, Remington Moses, and Evangeline Neuhart for And The Heavens Must Have Cried (USA)

Best Editing: Charles Kaufmann for That’s None of My Business (USA)

Best Original Story: Daniel Luis Ennab for A Summer Day in Brooklyn (USA)

Best Original Story: Siming Zheng for Reshape (USA)

Best Short Script: Chasen Ava by Joshua Duckworth (USA)